Book chapter
Karl Popper’s critical rationalism in agile software development
ICCS 2006: Conceptual Structures: Inspiration and Application, Vol.4068, pp.360-373
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2006
Abstract
Sir Karl Popper’s critical rationalism – a philosophy in the fallibilist tradition of Socrates, Kant and Peirce – is applied systematically to illuminate the values and principles underlying contemporary software development. The two aspects of Popper’s philosophy, the natural and the social, provide a comprehensive and unified philosophical basis for understanding the newly emerged “agile” methodologies. It is argued in the first four sections of the paper – Philosophy of Science, Evolutionary Theory of Knowledge, Metaphysics, and The Open Society – that the agile approach to software development is strongly endorsed by Popper’s philosophy of critical rationalism. In the final section, the relevance of Christopher Alexander’s ideas to agile methodologies and their similarity to Popper’s philosophy is demonstrated.
Details
- Title
- Karl Popper’s critical rationalism in agile software development
- Authors/Creators
- M. Northover (Author/Creator) - University of PretoriaA. Boake (Author/Creator) - University of PretoriaD.G. Kourie (Author/Creator) - University of Pretoria
- Contributors
- H. Schärfe (Editor)P. Hitzler (Editor)P. Øhrstrøm (Editor)
- Publication Details
- ICCS 2006: Conceptual Structures: Inspiration and Application, Vol.4068, pp.360-373
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Identifiers
- 991005544873807891
- Copyright
- © 2006 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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